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Post by ganews on Mar 18, 2022 10:40:47 GMT -5
It's that special time of year again!
For the annual April Fools edition of Record Club you are invited to nominate a stinker, but it has to be a record you legitimately enjoy. (This is to avoid a repeat of the Len disaster.) You are also expected to show up in the final review thread and defend your selection. "Why are you doing this to us?" we will cry out. And you will answer. Of course, you don't want to nominate something too awful, otherwise no one will vote for it. Aim for a record that may or may not have been popular but at least made enough of a splash to face a fair bit of derision today. You should probably provide some evidence that this album is rather a joke these days, unless it's completely obvious. Past April Fools selections include such luminaries as Korn, Spin Doctors, Spice Girls, and more. Maybe you will win someone over to the dark side?
You get two selections. The poll goes up around the 26th.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 18, 2022 11:49:58 GMT -5
Will Powers - Dancing for Mental Health ( 1983)
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Post by ganews on Mar 18, 2022 12:14:13 GMT -5
For my first pick, I will go with the Fratellis, "Costello Music". That's right, the kings of Landfill Indie. Yes, I am pushing 40. I would never put this record on when other stuff is handy, but I like it well enough to nominate it here. Hey, it could have been the Zutons, and I can't nominate UB40 every year.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 19, 2022 15:33:54 GMT -5
I'm honestly not sure whether this counts because most people haven't even heard of them. I only know that I adored this album and everyone I showed it too looked at me like I was absolutely nuts.
Rasputina - How We Quit the Forest
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Post by monodrone on Mar 21, 2022 7:40:13 GMT -5
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way. I was torn between this and Californication but I feel like this is the less cool/defensible option (not that I won't give it a good try!)
My second choice is not the most well known but is still an album that flopped commercially while also alienating a large chunk of their existing fanbase so naturally I adore it.
Cave In - Antenna
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Post by ganews on Mar 21, 2022 11:46:33 GMT -5
It's been a couple years since I nominated something like Squirrel Nut Zippers, "Hot". Even at the time you wouldn't want to admit to liking 90s swing revival, but I had several records.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Mar 21, 2022 15:19:27 GMT -5
MrsLangdonAlger I haven’t heard specifically of the album but I have heard of Rasputina and they sound nuts in one of the best possible ways Although I haven’t listened to it for a while, I listened to a fair amount of them in college and I recently heard some of Gogol Bordello’s Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike in a retail establishment and it was nice to hear it again, so let’s all give it a listen.
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 21, 2022 20:09:57 GMT -5
(MC) Hammer's 1991 album Too Legit to Quit
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 23, 2022 12:17:37 GMT -5
Best pop record of the '80s. As you will see if this record is chosen, this is not a bit.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 23, 2022 12:50:12 GMT -5
Also, to stay on-brand, I need to note the best album of 2001, Michelle Branch's The Spirit Room. A better record than Radiohead's Kid A, or Radiohead's Amnesiac, or, um, every Radiohead album.
EDIT: editing my post to make it clear which album I'm nominating in this post, since the point is to nominate notoriously shit artists and albums and you might be confused what the "bad" album/artist I'm promoting is
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 23, 2022 18:03:56 GMT -5
Billy Joel - Storm Front. Yeah yeah. It's got that song on it. None more plastic 80's production. A voice that seems to have been inexplicably retrained between albums. A chunk of the band sacked for a bunch of who-dat backup personnel. Produced by Mick "For Some Reason" Jones. There's almost nothing defensible about this album, yet I ended up listening to a lot when it came out and at a time I was forming a lot of musical opinions and... I can't hate it. In fact, as you may gather from its position on this thread, I like it.
The Travelling Wilburys - Vol 3. Just because the first album was defensible as a bunch of old guys dicking for no apparent reason didn't mean you had to do it again once the biggest-voiced of them had died. Fuck it, though, I still like it. Come baby, do the Wilbury Twist!
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 24, 2022 19:14:06 GMT -5
Also, to stay on-brand, I need to note the best album of 2001, Michelle Branch's The Spirit Room. A better record than Radiohead's Kid A, or Radiohead's Amnesiac, or, um, every Radiohead album.
EDIT: editing my post to make it clear which album I'm nominating in this post, since the point is to nominate notoriously shit artists and albums and you might be confused what the "bad" album/artist I'm promoting is
Fun Fact: I saw Michelle Branch perform one year with Stevie Nicks. I thought she was pretty good! Especially for playing a set in front of a bunch of people who weren't there to hear her.
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Post by ganews on Mar 26, 2022 8:17:16 GMT -5
Poll will go up later today or tomorrow.
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Post by Jimmy James on Mar 26, 2022 14:06:28 GMT -5
Going to sneak in Bad Religion's unloved* space album Into The Unknown if it's not too late.
*except for me and maybe Some Kind of Munster
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